Richard Pryor Calls on God

Comedian Richard Pryor was critically burned in an accident in 1980. Appearing later on the "Johnny Carson Show," he insisted that when you ...

Gifts Pleasing to God

One of the things my father taught all his sons was how to use a crosscut saw. His daddy and his daddy's daddy had taught their sons, and my father ...

Mission to Die

In The God of the Towel Jim McGuiggan writes:

In 490 B.C. as Xerxes was advancing into Greece, he came to Thermopylae, a small pass in central Greece. ...

Love Letter from God

Many years ago, a doting groom penned a love letter to his bride. Stationed at a California military base thousands of miles away from his wife, James ...

A Father's Love

In Surprised by Children, Harold Myra writes:

One afternoon my older brother Johnny and I were walking home from school when we suddenly found ourselves ...

Knowing God through Suffering

Doctors and nurses were doing everything possible for my wife, the mother of my seven children, yet I could see the hopelessness in their faces. Through ...

Healing from Sin

Last summer I had an encounter with masked men bearing scalpels. A surgeon operated on my foot, and my life was never in danger. Yet the horizontal recovery ...

Rescue at Great Cost

One of the magnificent 19th-century military expeditions conquered no new lands for Queen Victoria. You won't find it mentioned in history books, ...

God's Love for Adulterous Humanity

Have you ever had to literally turn a lover over to a mortal enemy to allow her to find out for herself what his intentions toward her really were? Have ...

God Loves the Sinner

Recently my 21-month-old, who had just learned to say, "Daddy," had been struggling with asthma and an ear infection for two weeks. He coughed ...